Pakistan has deployed paramilitary troops to restore order in Jaranwala, in eastern Punjab, after a rampaging mob set alight several churches and ransacked homes over claims that two men desecrated the Quran. Troops cordoned off the predominantly Christian area blocking all entry and exit points with barbed wire.Christians living ...
#Pakistan News Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday spoke to his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and discussed the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's response (OIC) against increasing attacks on the Quran, as well as the extension of the Black Sea Grain initiative, Turkish diplomatic sources said. Zardari, in ...
Thousands of people took to the streets in a handful of Muslim-majority countries Friday to express their outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Koran in Sweden, a day after protesters stormed the country's embassy in Iraq. The protests in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran that followed weekly ...
BIRMINGHAM, EnglandBritain has condemned the desecration and burning of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, in the Swedish capital city of Stockholm.In a written statement issued by a spokesperson of UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the British government said such actions are “deeply insulting to Muslims around the ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage Friday at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations following midday prayers to show their anger. In Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, protesters planned demonstrations after Swedish police permitted a protest Thursday in which ...
A Muslim activist who had received permission to burn a Torah and a Bible outside the Israeli embassy in Sweden on Saturday said he was backing off from the move, adding that he only wanted to draw attention to the recent burning of the Quran in the country. The ...
United Nations/Geneva: India on Wednesday voted in favour of a draft resolution tabled in the UN Human Rights Council that condemns and strongly rejects recent “public and premeditated” acts of desecration of the Holy Quran.The Geneva-based 47-member UN Human Rights Council adopted the draft resolution Countering religious hatred constituting ...
GENEVA: India on Wednesday voted in favour of a draft resolution tabled in the UN Human Rights Council that condemns and strongly rejects recent "public and premeditated" acts of desecration of the Holy Quran. The Geneva-based 47-member UN Human Rights Council adopted the draft resolution 'Countering religious hatred constituting ...